Overview
Jeff Donoho provides corporate, M&A, securities, business and transactional expertise to his clients. Jeff is particularly passionate about growing with his clients from whatever stage he first encounters them up through and including when his clients reach their ultimate goal (whether as an exit, sustained business success, or otherwise). Jeff has extensive experience with company financings and company acquisitions, and works to provide creative solutions to meet the unique needs and wants of each different client in each different company financing or company acquisition.
Jeff is regarded for having a broad knowledge of legal principles which enables him to analyze and approach the entire landscape of legal issues in a transaction or other matter. Jeff began his legal career as a judicial law clerk for two different trial judges. As a judicial law clerk, Jeff was exposed to all types of legal disputes and issues, ranging from minor property line disputes to major commercial and class action lawsuits. Following his clerkship, Jeff worked for another local law firm handling medical malpractice, legal malpractice, commercial litigation, and insurance-related matters.
At Kennyhertz Perry, Jeff works with businesses of all sizes and business people from all walks of life in addressing their commercial legal issues. Jeff has worked with businesses ranging from the smallest startup to a Fortune 500 public company. In addition to the practice areas noted above, Jeff’s practice at Kennyhertz Perry involves contract review and drafting, commercial litigation, regulated industries and compliance, employment practices, intellectual property, and many other commercial-related legal matters. In his free time, Jeff enjoys spending time with wife and daughter and working to maintain their rural property.
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Prior to joining Kennyhertz Perry, Jeff worked as an attorney for Horn Aylward & Bandy, a local Kansas City law firm focused on medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and commercial litigation lawsuits. At Horn Aylward & Bandy, Jeff focused his practice on medical malpractice lawsuits with an additional emphasis on handling professional licensee investigations by state licensing boards. Jeff also worked on complex class action and commercial litigation lawsuits. Jeff has practice experience with state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout Missouri and Kansas (and elsewhere). Prior to his time in private practice, Jeff served as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. Ann Mesle and the Hon. Sandra Midkiff of the 16th Circuit Court in Jackson County, Missouri.
Education
Jeff earned his Bachelor of Journalism (B.J.) with an emphasis in Advertising from the University of Missouri in Columbia, graduating magna cum laude. Jeff also earned his law degree from the University of Missouri, where he was a member of the Dean’s List each and every semester during his three years at law school. Jeff is admitted to practice in Kansas and Missouri, as well as numerous federal jurisdictions.
